Advice For New ILXers

I see no point in lurking for a long time before posting, but then my first post was about Colourbox and not Analingus.

Remember that 'a lot' is two words.

Do not try to pick up ILXOR-speak in order to fit in. Languages only evolve by immigrants saying 'this language sucks, let's slash the seats',

Don't complain that everyone is cliquey and unfriendly. Even if it's true it will make everyone hate you even more.

If you don't get a joke, it's probably not funny.

Remember that a lot of things are only on here because everyone is assuming that someone else must like them.

Don't make too many threads just for the sake of it. No one knows how many too many is.

Less 'meta' is betta.

Bring a little bit of analingus to everything you do.

Hm. Well, it's not funny to you, but maybe the fact you don't get it is funny? To other people? Who are mean? And will call you names? Maybe.

Which isn't to say that chatrooms don't pose dangers. I know from my own experience that if someone is trying to pick a fight, and I find myself intervening more than once supposedly to try and talk the guy down, then something inside me is looking for a fight too, and I've got to back off and look at my own problems. But that info doesn't belong in advice to newcomers, and is more likely to scare someone than to help him.

i must go hide.

This must go into the FAQ immediately.

I agree with the just-jump-right-in faction, except that I also think it is good to do a search first if you are thinking of posting a new thread. But there's no need to lurk for a year or read a hundred threads before posting.

ILX is both cliquish and welcoming, in my experience. No one here has ever met me in person, as far as I know (with the exception of one rare celebrity poster on ILM, and one poster I invited to ILM), yet people started responding to my posts pretty early on, and some seemed to go out of their way to be friendly.

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Glad to see everyone disagrees.

dont

Haaaaaaaaaa, came here to post exactly that.

i have no real advice, except, much like in life, this place is what you make of it

which ones are the new ones

Everyone who joined after about March of 2002 is new I think

welcome John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

It would be a cool to see a list of every ilxor sorted by date joined

I wonder if it’s to the point where an early ilxor could veritably pwn a newbie by saying “I’ve been on this site longer than you’ve been alive”

ILX will be 19 years old in summer, so yes. (Signed, Here First Day, Now Get Off My Lawn.)

Awesome

imagine the total statscock

the ilx lawn in 2000 was much greener

more like yawn

my advice just have fun shootin' the shit on the internet

^^

my advice is make sure you're not spending more than 60% of your time complaining about shitty things are, unless you're oscar the grouch

He's more about delighting in how shitty things are though tbf.

Did something happen or is this just griping about the politics threads

Don't post on any threads or the villagers will round on you

Thank u 2 this thread for giving me pause to realize that the fifteenth anniversary of my first post is coming up in a few days, what the fuuuuuck

Run, new posters. Run and don't look back.

oh ppl say that like you wouldn't have just wasted your time on some other dumb shit

I'll have you know that I've very efficiently wasted my time on a broad variety of dumb shit over those fifteen years, thank you very much.

i'm just assuming the "ilx sucks" crew are actually reading the politics threads? in which case my advice is don't even open those threads, talking about politics on the internet is a losing game

'ilx sucks' is practically our secret handshake at this point, c'mon.

I'll have you know that I've very efficiently wasted my time on a broad variety of dumb shit over those fifteen years, thank you very much.

― St. Boniface, patron saint of boner faces (Old Lunch)

i've wasted my time on dumb shit all over the place, this is one of the better places i've gone to waste my time on dumb shit imo

i don't do "ilx sucks" because primus fans beat us to that like thirty years ago